The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Yellowstone Park shows its enter.
prise by bursting out in a new place
with a geyser which outsquirts all the
old ones.
-Twenty-eight unmarried women
reside i'm Garfield County Col, also
q thousand unmarried men. All the
men can't get wife from among the
twenty-eight. and it probably puzzles
the women to make a choice among
the thousand.
The two oldest trees in the world
are supposed to be the one in Calaveras
County. Cal, that is believed to be
1865 years old, and the cypress OF
Somma, in Lombardy, Italy, that is
,,911 years old, or planted forty-two
years before Christ.
An Ohio wedding was first post
poned because the girls mother died.
Then the young mans father died;
then the girl broke leg; then the
young man got kicked by horse.
Last week it was postponed again be-
cause the girls father got mangled in a
reaper. Won't they be happy couple
if they ever do get spliced!
"A citizen of Cincinnati thought
that he had sure fortune in kitten
which had five heads, five tails, ten
fore legs, and five hind legs. He also
thought that it ought to have about
forty-five lives and was good for many
years, but after brief career of fifteen
days the little monstrOsity died, the re-
suit of too much handling by the OIL
rious.
One of the queerest facts in nat
ural history has been discovered by
Rev. j. j. Laffertv, of Richmond, who
gives it to the world in his religious
journal as follows: when a sparrow
hawk pounces on a guinea, he lets the
guinea fly, but the hawk, sitting on the
back of the fowl, uses his own tail to
guide the guinea. He always steers
his victim to his nest in the forest"
"A model for machine-gun car
riage, the invention of Colonel Buffing-
ton, has just been completed at the
United States Armory at Springfield,
Mass. 1t is ingeniously constructed,
promising TO revolutionize this feature
of modern warfare. The carriage fur
nisheS a complete protection to the
gunners, and will render the men who
are working it as safe as they would be
inside an ironclad.-N T. Post.
Mr.. Barber, of Lyonsdale, n. Y,
threw his black Newfoundland dog
into the stream there when twas quite
high, and the animal was carried over
the dam. Instead of going down
stream, an eddy carried him to the dry
rocks under the dam. from which he
was unable to make his escape sntil
the water receded. He remained there
twenty-one DAYS without food, and
when he came out his hair had nearly
all turned white.
The Galveston NeDs is authority
for the statement that in 1880 there
were only about 500 miles of railway in
Mexico, while by the close of the pres
ent year there will be over $500, with
a capital of about 1920, 900, 600 invested.
OF the total mileage 200 are owned
and operated by Americans. An idea
of the value of railway construction to
Mexico may be obtained when it is
stated that the revenues of the country
have increased from S17, 800, 900 i'm 1879
to SIS, 900. 900 in 1886.
There are over 100, 900 horses used
i'm hauling street cars in the United
States. Chicago has S,625; Cincinnati,
1,175, and st. Louis. 2,S15. Five years
is more than the average useful life of
horse for street car purposes. The
success of the system for propelling
street cars by electricity has convinced
street car men that the horses must 90,
more especially since it has been thor
oughly demonstrated that cars can be
run by electricity under the system for
one-half the cost of running by horses.
"A Kingston man who heard about
the accident which was occasioned by a
team running over couple of cattle
said that cows were very deceiving an
finals on a road for horsemen, because
they had such dumb way" of back
ing or walking in front of vehicle.
In fact it is impossible to tell just what
a cow will do. 1.-The only thing to do
is when you see cow ahead of you i'm
the road give the animal a wide berth.
for if you drive close to her the chances
are that she will put herself in front of
the wheel. When a wagon strikes a
COW it is like running against a stone
wall and the wagon is apt to suffer for
it. "-KingSton Freeman.
-Ithas frequently been argued, from
the weight of their armor and the char
acter of their weapons, that the SOL
diers of the Roman legions were strong
er men than are the troops of modern